"In addition to the cabling we put in initially, we put 2 or 3 lines of some kind of string inside. That way you can just tie one end of cable to one of the strings an pull it through to the other end."
Pull slowly and take breaks when you do this. The cables rubbing each other will burn right through the insulation.
"Um, just about every electronic item you own, every "space-age" fabric you use, the technology used in your car, a better grasp of cheaper space travel, countless medical experiments with many positive results, etc. The list goes on and on. We have benefitted in many ways from this "pissing" contest. Yes, we paid great prices and it probably wasn't the best way, but it happened and we probably wouldn't have been so pressed to research and increase technology had there not been a foe there to incite us."
I think this is a lie that you have bought into.
Improvements are fueled by consumer goods, and they have been for quite some time. Velcro was developed in the The Integrated Circuit would have been discoverred regardless of Apollo, and it would have yielded Ipod regardless of the giant leap.
Those "space-age" fabrics are the product of a huge huge huge chemical industry, of which the space industry is a teeny tiny consumer. Space age fabric development probably owes far more to lingerie than it does to space suits.
Yeah, like if it weren't for astronauts, we would have no desire to improve medical care. Get real.
Granted, I haven't done anything with the Red Cross since the mid 90s, but HAM was all that was ever taken for granted then-- everything was assumed to be down.
It seems like your average movie would take more people to make than your average video game. (microphone people, cameramen, caterers, assistants, makeup, stunts...).
And your average movie tends to support a lot of ridiculously rich people (actors, producers, directors, in addition to the CEO and major stock holders), so there must be more money there.
When the tabloids start following the art director for Halo 6 to see who (s)he's dating, I'll believe that games are on par with movies.
"I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
And anyone who is still thinking that way as an adult needs to grow up.
The key word in your post is "business". My own brother-in-law and sister are supported by a congregation. They should get real jobs and stop scamming people. And you should stop supporting that BS too.
"Snow Crash was a Cyberpunk novel loaded with heavy doses of socio-political and religious satire, violence and sexual imagery, among other things."
Socio-political? Stephenson advocates apartheid-- like in most of his novels. Edgy.
Religious? Whatever-- I used to lead prayers before crowds of 1500+-- this book does not really address religion. None of the protagonists have a serious religious commitment. One of the minor good guys (gal) does, but mostly all the religion is in the hands of the bad guys, and it is not explored.
Violence? ???
Sexual imagery? The chick had a dildo in her for the whole book-- that's sexual imagery? Biological improbability more like-- hello toxic shock syndrome.
"like Stargate, Harry Potter, Snow Crash and the old Land of the Lost rolled into one"-- damning with faint praise?
Snow Crash would have been far better without the mumbo-jumbo. Half of all people are of below average intelligence. Just have the villain prey on their stupidity (typical televangilst). All that Sumerian crap was tedious.
Seriously-- watch the 700 Club. Pat Robertson is a multimillionaire because he spews that kind of crap and people lick it up. The techno-mysticism was completely unnecessary-- just have the bad guy be your typical rapacious asshole.
since I've about 75 pounds on my wife and we go to a pretty large martial arts school, we rarely work with each other during class (they like to group us by weight).
And, in our relationship, it would be the other way 'round. She has a lot more... "fire" than I do.
One of the computers in my house is an Apple IIe-- though the girls only bang on the keyboard right now.
"computer-based learning should preferably guarantee that a student meets the class requirements and has an opportunity to extend their knowledge beyond the "lowest common denominator" teachings."
Well, television-based learning has been around for a long long time and I challenge you to find any science related programming on PBS that goes past the freshmen level.
I've been watching biology shows on PBS for more than 20 years, and I've never seen anything more advanced than my AP Bio course in High School. I'm assuming the other sciences are the same, but I'm not qualified to say (well, ok, I took a lot of Chemistry, and that is nonexistent on PBS).
Really all PBS does, other than bio (almost exclusively animal behavior, with the annual human development show) is theoretical physics, and the way they present it, how can anyone take it seriously? Might as well be a psychic.
It is a great disservice to the public that quality freshman-sophomore level science and math is not *always* on the television. And after that has been achieved, junior-senior and graduate level. I think everyone can learn. And I think everyone can learn *a lot*. Putting it in passive TV mode would accomplish that.
For example-- Zoboomafoo is an excellent show. My 2 and a half year old daughter has learned about animals that I have never heard of a year ago. She can tell you what they eat and when they sleep. That is awesome. The show is entertaining and informative.
Why can't there be a show like that about all facets of science? (There kind of is for math-- Cyberchase-- but only the live-action part is worth watching-- the cartoon part really sucks-- they think they need a contrived plot to teach, but they don't-- kids like to learn).
Chemistry is especially important. I think everyone should know that if you get curing concrete or plaster-of-paris on your skin it's going to burn like a son of a bitch. Don't go in the manure pit (you won't come out again). Experience is not the way to learn that kind of thing.
The Liedenfrost effect is really cool-- everyone should know about that.
"However, it doesn't take much to realize if the marketing is curtailed (e.g., the way sales rep bribe doctors - booze, trips, "seminars",...)"
You forgot the doughnuts in the surgeon's lounge.
mmm. doughnuts.
That was the best thing about being an orderly-- the drug reps and their bribes. Well, ok, and the MILF nurses who were dissatisfied with their marriages-- come to think of it, I had to compete with the doctors for both of those things.
"Most people are willing to sacrifice a few weeks of burning during urination for lots of sex."
That doesn't make any sense-- wouldn't that also be a few weeks without sex? A few weeks without sex is not lots of sex. A day or two without sex is lots of sex.
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"In addition to the cabling we put in initially, we put 2 or 3 lines of some kind of string inside. That way you can just tie one end of cable to one of the strings an pull it through to the other end."
Pull slowly and take breaks when you do this. The cables rubbing each other will burn right through the insulation.
I was hoping for "quit".
"please refrain from lumping "HAM" operators with the CB groups."
10-4 good buddy.
Keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down.
"the only digital communication medium that can be read by both humans and computers."
I don't know about you, but I can read ASCII.
"Can you imagine a 500% return on your investment in the business world?"
Yes, I can.
Let's see, the space race heated up in what... 1957?
And this study was done when? 1987? 1997?
Did they go back even further to the WWII rocket research?
500% over what time period?
"Um, just about every electronic item you own, every "space-age" fabric you use, the technology used in your car, a better grasp of cheaper space travel, countless medical experiments with many positive results, etc. The list goes on and on. We have benefitted in many ways from this "pissing" contest. Yes, we paid great prices and it probably wasn't the best way, but it happened and we probably wouldn't have been so pressed to research and increase technology had there not been a foe there to incite us."
I think this is a lie that you have bought into.
Improvements are fueled by consumer goods, and they have been for quite some time. Velcro was developed in the The Integrated Circuit would have been discoverred regardless of Apollo, and it would have yielded Ipod regardless of the giant leap.
Those "space-age" fabrics are the product of a huge huge huge chemical industry, of which the space industry is a teeny tiny consumer. Space age fabric development probably owes far more to lingerie than it does to space suits.
Yeah, like if it weren't for astronauts, we would have no desire to improve medical care. Get real.
NASA is mostly a waste of money. Admit it.
Granted, I haven't done anything with the Red Cross since the mid 90s, but HAM was all that was ever taken for granted then-- everything was assumed to be down.
It seems like your average movie would take more people to make than your average video game. (microphone people, cameramen, caterers, assistants, makeup, stunts...).
And your average movie tends to support a lot of ridiculously rich people (actors, producers, directors, in addition to the CEO and major stock holders), so there must be more money there.
When the tabloids start following the art director for Halo 6 to see who (s)he's dating, I'll believe that games are on par with movies.
There already are free bike programs in the US-- Williams College for instance. I think some cities have them too, but I could be wrong.
Ug, what did they do? Use Ursula K. LeGuin's contract lawyer?
"What claim does a boy have whose great-great-great-great grandparents (and before) hunted Buffalo that I don't?"
Tribal casino money?
likewise, don't defend the US. Or Israel. Or China. Or Great Britain. Or France. Or the Netherlands. Or Japan. Or Pol Pot...
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"I tell you the truth,
anyone who will not receive
the kingdom of God
like a little child
will never enter it."
And anyone who is still thinking that way as an adult needs to grow up.
The key word in your post is "business". My own brother-in-law and sister are supported by a congregation. They should get real jobs and stop scamming people. And you should stop supporting that BS too.
"Snow Crash was a Cyberpunk novel loaded with heavy doses of socio-political and religious satire, violence and sexual imagery, among other things."
Socio-political? Stephenson advocates apartheid-- like in most of his novels. Edgy.
Religious? Whatever-- I used to lead prayers before crowds of 1500+-- this book does not really address religion. None of the protagonists have a serious religious commitment. One of the minor good guys (gal) does, but mostly all the religion is in the hands of the bad guys, and it is not explored.
Violence? ???
Sexual imagery? The chick had a dildo in her for the whole book-- that's sexual imagery? Biological improbability more like-- hello toxic shock syndrome.
"like Stargate, Harry Potter, Snow Crash and the old Land of the Lost rolled into one"-- damning with faint praise?
Snow Crash would have been far better without the mumbo-jumbo. Half of all people are of below average intelligence. Just have the villain prey on their stupidity (typical televangilst). All that Sumerian crap was tedious.
Seriously-- watch the 700 Club. Pat Robertson is a multimillionaire because he spews that kind of crap and people lick it up. The techno-mysticism was completely unnecessary-- just have the bad guy be your typical rapacious asshole.
Men do not serve as acolytes.
In my church, you *stopped* being an acolyte around age 13 (or younger).
Have some dignity.
you meant directly proportional right?
since I've about 75 pounds on my wife and we go to a pretty large martial arts school, we rarely work with each other during class (they like to group us by weight).
And, in our relationship, it would be the other way 'round. She has a lot more... "fire" than I do.
whew!
One of the computers in my house is an Apple IIe-- though the girls only bang on the keyboard right now.
"computer-based learning should preferably guarantee that a student meets the class requirements and has an opportunity to extend their knowledge beyond the "lowest common denominator" teachings."
Well, television-based learning has been around for a long long time and I challenge you to find any science related programming on PBS that goes past the freshmen level.
I've been watching biology shows on PBS for more than 20 years, and I've never seen anything more advanced than my AP Bio course in High School. I'm assuming the other sciences are the same, but I'm not qualified to say (well, ok, I took a lot of Chemistry, and that is nonexistent on PBS).
Really all PBS does, other than bio (almost exclusively animal behavior, with the annual human development show) is theoretical physics, and the way they present it, how can anyone take it seriously? Might as well be a psychic.
It is a great disservice to the public that quality freshman-sophomore level science and math is not *always* on the television. And after that has been achieved, junior-senior and graduate level. I think everyone can learn. And I think everyone can learn *a lot*. Putting it in passive TV mode would accomplish that.
For example-- Zoboomafoo is an excellent show. My 2 and a half year old daughter has learned about animals that I have never heard of a year ago. She can tell you what they eat and when they sleep. That is awesome. The show is entertaining and informative.
Why can't there be a show like that about all facets of science? (There kind of is for math-- Cyberchase-- but only the live-action part is worth watching-- the cartoon part really sucks-- they think they need a contrived plot to teach, but they don't-- kids like to learn).
Chemistry is especially important. I think everyone should know that if you get curing concrete or plaster-of-paris on your skin it's going to burn like a son of a bitch. Don't go in the manure pit (you won't come out again). Experience is not the way to learn that kind of thing.
The Liedenfrost effect is really cool-- everyone should know about that.
Stuff like that.
TV has failed us. Computers are failing us too.
that really depends on the one year old. Some are climbers. Some are not.
Yes, Fen Phen is synthetic AFAIK and so is LSD. There are LSD-like things in fungi and plants, but LSD does not occur naturally.
Cocaine is basically squeezed out and simply processed from coca leaves. You can chew coca leaves and get high. So, I'd call that an herbal.
And since you smoke or eat the plant, unadultered, marijuana would be an herbal. In fact some call it "herb".
I don't understand your choices for comparison at all.
Pirates... that want to help people?
I thought pirates were people like this.
"However, it doesn't take much to realize if the marketing is curtailed (e.g., the way sales rep bribe doctors - booze, trips, "seminars", ...)"
You forgot the doughnuts in the surgeon's lounge.
mmm. doughnuts.
That was the best thing about being an orderly-- the drug reps and their bribes. Well, ok, and the MILF nurses who were dissatisfied with their marriages-- come to think of it, I had to compete with the doctors for both of those things.
There's a vaccine for HPV now too.
"Most people are willing to sacrifice a few weeks of burning during urination for lots of sex."
That doesn't make any sense-- wouldn't that also be a few weeks without sex? A few weeks without sex is not lots of sex. A day or two without sex is lots of sex.
the IT request form has the added benefit of documenting to your bosses that you really are busy.
I highly recommend martial arts as stress relief-- as a general mood lift.
There have been dozens of times when my wife and I have been fighting on the way to hapkido, and we have been all smiles and happy after class.
I don't know that you should be taking out you frustrations on the open road on a motorcycle though... maybe dirt-biking.